Enright named best of the best, again

Matt Murnane

ENDURING Geelong defender Corey Enright was last night honoured as the best player in the AFL's best team for the second time in his decorated career.

The 30-year-old edged out teammates Joel Corey and Jimmy Bartel to clinch his second ''Carji'' Greeves Medal and complete a stunning season that had already produced his third premiership medal and fourth All-Australian selection.

Geelong coach Chris Scott last night guaranteed the club's premiership players would not ''get ahead of themselves'' next year and defiantly stated it was possible for the Cats to win the flag again in 2012.

"I think we know that our playing group is going to be questioned again over the next 12 months and those questions are real and we shouldn't argue with them,'' he told the club's members.

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It was the repeat of a coveted triple for Enright, who won the Cats' 2009 best and fairest award in a year where he was again named All-Australian and Geelong won the premiership.

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The highly rated defender polled 150 votes to upstage former two-time champion Corey on 143 and Norm Smith medallist Bartel on 142 in front of more than 1500 guests at the Crown Palladium.

The tightest count in the club's history - only 16 votes separated the top 10 - was decided in the final round when Enright polled seven votes to hold off Corey and Bartel, as well as Cameron Ling and All-Australian James Kelly, who tied for equal fourth on 138.

Despite receiving just three votes in this year's Brownlow Medal, Enright led the 2011 premier in several statistical categories, including kicks, kicking efficiency, marks, uncontested possessions and loose ball gets.

Last night's count was the ninth top-10 finish for runner-up Corey, the 2005 and 2008 winner.

It also left Bartel, a Brownlow and North Smith medallist as well as a two-time All-Australian and three-time premiership player, still yet to win a club best and fairest.

The club last night named Selwood and retiring premiership forward Cameron Mooney as the inaugural winners of the Tom Harley Award - an honour given to the players who ''best demonstrate the values of the team and the club'' as voted on by the playing list and coaching staff.

Mooney also won Scott's coach's award, while Daniel Menzel, 20, was named best young player.

Mooney, who was left out of Geelong's grand final team, said Scott made the right decision playing key forward Tom Hawkins ahead of him last weekend.

''The easiest thing about Saturday was watching Hawk play,'' Mooney said, ''and, the way he played in the second half, I knew I could not have done what he did.''